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Trump’s Tariff Windfall: Checks for Americans and a Path to Zero Income Tax · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump announcing a six point two five billion
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Speaker 1: dollar donation from Michael and Susan Dell to fund what
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Speaker 1: are now being referred to as the Trump Accounts. Now,
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Speaker 1: Michael and Susan Dell on Tuesday, on Giving Tuesday said
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Speaker 1: that they would make this donation to these Trump accounts,
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Speaker 1: giving two hundred and fifty dollars a piece to twenty
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Speaker 1: five million US children. Now, what is this all about. Well,
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Speaker 1: Senator Cruz came up with this idea to have savings
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Speaker 1: accounts basically retirement accounts investment accounts for children in America.
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Speaker 1: President Trump loved the idea and turn it into what
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Speaker 1: he describes as the Trump Accounts. This is not a
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Speaker 1: security type account. This is actual money that would be
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Speaker 1: put in the name of newborn children and young Americans
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Speaker 1: and then would allow them to invest and to grow
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Speaker 1: these accounts over time, something that many Americans feel intimidated by.
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Speaker 1: Statistics show that far too many Americans believe that you
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Speaker 1: can invest until you have a significant amount of money,
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Speaker 1: so many of them do not invest. There's also people
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Speaker 1: that worry about not having enough money and people making
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Speaker 1: fun of them or feeling inadequate when they would go
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Speaker 1: in to set up an investment account. This is to
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Speaker 1: take away all of that fear and to empower a
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Speaker 1: new generation to understand that investing is important and you
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Speaker 1: can watch your money grow over time so that you
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Speaker 1: can retire with confidence one day and understand that maybe
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Speaker 1: instead of buying something, you can invest and then watch
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Speaker 1: that compound interest do its thing. It truly could transform
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Speaker 1: this country in one generation. And the President of the
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Speaker 1: United States of America at the White House with a
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Speaker 1: speaker of the House center Cruise and many others around it,
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Speaker 1: including Michael and Susan Dell, you know them from Dell Computers,
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Speaker 1: talking about this massive donation to give a major jumpstart
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Speaker 1: for you. The President in the of Office talking about
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Speaker 1: what a major day this is for this country and
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Speaker 1: for the kids.
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Speaker 2: Today is Giving Tuesday.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if anybody's heard that one before, but
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Speaker 3: it is indeed Giving Tuesday, one of the biggest days
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Speaker 3: of the year for philanthropy and charitable giving. And this afternoon,
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Speaker 3: Michael and Susan Dell are committing to one of the
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Speaker 3: largest private donations in American history, which will directly benefit
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Speaker 3: the next generation of American children through the new Trump
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Speaker 3: Accounts program that we created in.
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Speaker 2: Our One Big Beautiful Bill.
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Speaker 3: Michael and Susan came to see me along with Brad
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Speaker 3: and they said, you know, this is an idea, and
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Speaker 3: I said, I think you know it sounds it's just
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Speaker 3: so good and so unique.
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Speaker 2: But that's why he's been so successful.
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Speaker 3: They've been so successful in life and in business because
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Speaker 3: they're unique. Trump Accounts will be the first, I guess
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Speaker 3: you could say, real trust funds for every American child,
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Speaker 3: allowing family members, employers corporations, generous donors to contribute money
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Speaker 3: that will be invested and grow over the course of
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Speaker 3: a child's life, to be used for their benefit after
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Speaker 3: they turn eighteen. So in otherwise, these are children that
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Speaker 3: are an investment's going to be made. That investment's going
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Speaker 3: to continue to grow. We hope, we hope, but it
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Speaker 3: will and they'll be they'll feel like they'll feel like
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Speaker 3: Michael Dell someday. But at eighteen they'll have a lot
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Speaker 3: of money, a lot more money than they would have had,
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Speaker 3: a potentially a lot of money. But these accounts will
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Speaker 3: track the overall stock market, will be one hundred percent
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Speaker 3: private property controlled by the child's guardians. In honor of
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Speaker 3: America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, the Dell are announcing
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Speaker 3: today that they are giving twenty five million American children
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Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty dollars each to save and to
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Speaker 3: invest in their personal Trump account. Now that's the equivalent
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Speaker 3: of six point two five billion. In other words, to
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Speaker 3: put it succinctly, Michael and sus are giving six billion,
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Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty million dollars in total, and as
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Speaker 3: a total contribution, that's big stuff.
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Speaker 2: I don't care who you are, that's become I give
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Speaker 2: me a hand.
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Speaker 3: And let me have a little of that luck of
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Speaker 3: rug belt.
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Speaker 2: That's fantastics.
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Speaker 3: And these gifts will be available to the first twenty
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Speaker 3: five million children aged ten and under the sign the
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Speaker 3: zip codes where their median income is one hundred.
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Speaker 2: And fifty thousand dollars or less.
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Speaker 3: So they're giving them to children that won't be born
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Speaker 3: particularly rich, and they're going to be hopefully very rich someday.
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Speaker 3: This will give millions of dollars, millions of children, middle
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Speaker 3: class families, a stake in American prosperity, a benefit from
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Speaker 3: the rising stock market, and a better shot at the
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Speaker 3: American dream.
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Speaker 2: It really gives them a shot at the American dream.
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Speaker 3: Michael and Susan, I want to thank you for this
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Speaker 3: extraordinary act of kindness and patriotism and charity. This is
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Speaker 3: truly one of the most generous acts in the history
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Speaker 3: of our country.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you just don't you don't hear about things
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Speaker 2: like that, And we got to let people know.
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Speaker 3: He doesn't want and she doesn't care about that, but
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Speaker 3: I do. I think when somebody does that, you got
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Speaker 3: to let them know about it. As I mentioned this
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Speaker 3: gift is being made possible by the largest tax cuts
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Speaker 3: in American history, which are Republican majorities passed earlier this year.
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Speaker 2: And the Speaker worked so hard, and.
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Speaker 3: John Thune and Jason and all of them, every one
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Speaker 3: of them ted ted cruises with us.
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Speaker 2: He worked so hard getting that done.
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Speaker 4: That was the.
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Speaker 3: Biggest, most consequential bill they say, ever passed. And you know,
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Speaker 3: if they remember, Michael, we were they thought we had
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Speaker 3: to put that in twelve to fourteen bills. I said,
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Speaker 3: I don't know if we can hold it that long
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Speaker 3: with the Democrats, and we said, let's try doing it once.
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Speaker 3: So we did, and people were surprised, but we got
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Speaker 3: it done. So I congratulate you guys, amazing job. Under
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Speaker 3: that bill, the federal government will also automatically be making
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Speaker 3: a one time seat contribution of one thousand dollars into
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Speaker 3: the tax to Trump accounts for every newborn US citizen,
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Speaker 3: fulfilling a promise I made in the twenty twenty four campaign.
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Speaker 3: Trump account should grow to be worth many thousands of
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Speaker 3: dollars by the time the child is eighteen, and even
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Speaker 3: more by the time they are twenty or even.
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Speaker 2: Thirty years old.
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Speaker 3: We think it's going to be something really unique and
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Speaker 3: really special. We hope many others will follow Michael and
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Speaker 3: Susan's example and make their own contributions. I'll be doing
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Speaker 3: it too, to the next generation, including businesses, churches, philanthropists,
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Speaker 3: family members, and parents themselves. I think we're going to
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Speaker 3: have a lot of people, Susan, I think a lot
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Speaker 3: of people are going to be contribute.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people are watching us right now.
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Speaker 3: They might not be six billion dollars plus, but.
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Speaker 2: There'll be a lot. There aren't too many people.
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Speaker 3: That are in the six billion range, but there'll be
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Speaker 3: a lot. A lot of friends of mine have already
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Speaker 3: told me they're going to contribute a lot of money,
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Speaker 3: and a lot of them are going to leave a
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Speaker 3: lot of money in their wills. So that's very important,
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Speaker 3: and as you watch us today, I hope you'll be
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Speaker 3: doing that. Contributions to Trump accounts will also be a
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Speaker 3: great benefit for employers to offer their workers, which they'll
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Speaker 3: be able to do tax free.
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Speaker 2: It's tax free.
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Speaker 3: We expect hundreds of major companies to announce plans to
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Speaker 3: contribute to these accounts in the coming months, and we've
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Speaker 3: had tremendous interest in that regard so the Trump accounts
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Speaker 3: will be available starting on July.
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Speaker 2: Fourth next year. Michael and Susan to you again.
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Speaker 3: It's an amazing act of just incredible everything. I mean,
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Speaker 3: the life you've led to be able to do this,
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Speaker 3: even to be able to even a lot of people
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Speaker 3: have a good heart, but they can't give six billion,
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Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty million dollars.
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Speaker 2: And Michael, probably knowing you, it's not the last of
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Speaker 2: it either.
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Speaker 3: It's not the last, but on behalf of the United
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Speaker 3: States of America. I want to thank you both, and
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Speaker 3: I want to thank all three, but I want to
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Speaker 3: thank you both because you've been friends of mine and.
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Speaker 2: It's a spectacular couple. This is really an amazing an
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Speaker 2: amazing people.
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Speaker 1: You listen the present there. This is going to be
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Speaker 1: transformative and have such a major impact for so many
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Speaker 1: young people. This is also probably going to impact more
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Speaker 1: quote Democrats than Republicans, as these accounts will be going
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Speaker 1: to many people that would not have opened these accounts
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Speaker 1: in lower incoming poverty areas. Many of them are Democratic voters.
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Speaker 1: I love the fact that President's saying, we've got to
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Speaker 1: lift everybody up, but this is a way to do
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Speaker 1: it without the government running a disaster program that gets
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Speaker 1: terrible returns, like Social Security. This is something you own,
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Speaker 1: that you're in charge of and that you can learn from.
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Speaker 1: This could change an entire country in one generation. I
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Speaker 1: want to move to tariffs real quick in the President
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Speaker 1: of United States of America also now talking about he
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Speaker 1: believes that income tax in the United States of America
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Speaker 1: will be abolished for most earners. Now, how is this
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Speaker 1: even a possibility. Well, it goes back to how much
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Speaker 1: money we're collecting from tariffs, and the President says it's
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Speaker 1: time to reward the American people. Donald Trump is now
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Speaker 1: saying that tariff revenues will skyrocket as inventory stockpiles are
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Speaker 1: getting depleted. The President saying the tariff revenue is going
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Speaker 1: to be massive, arguing that retailers that previously stockpiled inventory
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Speaker 1: to avoid the levees are running low on supplies and
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Speaker 1: will have to bring in new goods under the tariff
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Speaker 1: regime soon. Trump's comments on true social came as he
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Speaker 1: has been pushing hard to make life in the US
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Speaker 1: more affordable, recently cutting levees on over twitter products and
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Speaker 1: promising to send tariff dividend checks to most Americans as well.
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Speaker 1: Now the full benefit of the tariffs has not yet
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Speaker 1: been calculated, and that many of the buyers of goods
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Speaker 1: and products, in order to avoid paying the tariffs in
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Speaker 1: the short term, stocked up by purchasing far more inventory
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Speaker 1: than they can use. The president wrote that heavy inventory
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Speaker 1: purchases now, however, wearing thin, and soon tariffs will be
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Speaker 1: paid on everything they apply to without avoidance, and the
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Speaker 1: amount payable to the US well skyrocket. We are alrighty
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Speaker 1: the hottest country anywhere in the world. But this tariff
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Speaker 1: power will bring America national security and wealth the likes
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Speaker 1: of which has never been seen before. Trump added that
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Speaker 1: he is hoping for a speedy decision from the Supreme Court,
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Speaker 1: which is weighing the present's use of emergency powers to
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Speaker 1: enact sweeping tariffs on foreign nations. The president also has
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Speaker 1: been touting his affordability agenda in the wake of the
13:30
Speaker 1: democratic wins across the country earlier this month, including New
13:34
Speaker 1: York City with a socialist mayor there Mundani, and as
13:39
Speaker 1: consumers are grappling with inflation that has come down since
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Speaker 1: Trump got into office. Trump is also vowed to send
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Speaker 1: two thousand dollars checks to Americans, not including high income
13:51
Speaker 1: people quote unquote sometime before the twenty twenty six midterms
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Speaker 1: using revenue from the tariffs to give it back to
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Speaker 1: the American people. Some Republican lawmakers have pushed back on
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Speaker 1: that idea. Why because they want to just spend your
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Speaker 1: money instead of giving it back to you. And this
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Speaker 1: is the other part of the equation. The President says
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Speaker 1: that the tariffs are going to be so good that
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Speaker 1: now he believes we can actually get rid of the
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Speaker 1: income tax if we want to. Here's the President talking
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Speaker 1: about that.
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Speaker 3: Over the next two, three, four years, those numbers are
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Speaker 3: going to go up, and I believe that at some
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Speaker 3: point in the not too distant future, you won't even
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Speaker 3: have income tax to pay it because the money would
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Speaker 3: take it in is so great. It's so enormous that
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Speaker 3: you're not going to have income tax to pay whether
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Speaker 3: you get rid of it or just keep it around
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Speaker 3: for fun, or have it really low, much lower than
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Speaker 3: it is now now.
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Speaker 1: The President of the United States America obviously pointing out
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Speaker 1: there could be some fighting over this, but the money
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Speaker 1: will be flowing in. How the money is divvied up.
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Speaker 1: As part of the equation, Conservative politicians like Senator Tom
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Speaker 1: ti Republican from North Carolina question quote why tariff revenue
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Speaker 1: would be used for stimulus payments instead of paying down
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Speaker 1: the debt, which now exceeds thirty eight trillion dollars. In fact,
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Speaker 1: ninety state officials send a letter to Trump and members
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Speaker 1: of Congress last week urging the White House to approve
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Speaker 1: a plan by next July to balance the budget. That
15:24
Speaker 1: putting real pressure on the White House. Treasury Secretary of
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Speaker 1: Scott Messent recently cautioned that the White House would need
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Speaker 1: Congressional approval to send out tariff dividend checks. He's also
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Speaker 1: said the dividends could take a variety of forms, including
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Speaker 1: tax cuts, and that any payouts would target working families.
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Speaker 1: There is a lot, obviously to figure out here, but
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Speaker 1: what we do know is that tariffs are working, and
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Speaker 1: the amount of money that is coming into the United
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Speaker 1: States of America is staggering, something Democrats said wouldn't happen.
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Speaker 1: We also know that it has not stagnated our economy.
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Speaker 1: That was a prediction by the media and by the left.
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Speaker 1: They said that there were going to be empty shelves.
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Speaker 1: Another lie that it was told, and one that we
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Speaker 1: now know is not even close to being reality. Now,
16:20
Speaker 1: you combine all of this and put it together with
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Speaker 1: what the President has said, and that is, I want
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Speaker 1: to lower costs for all Americans. Number one, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to have these accounts for your children so that they
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Speaker 1: can grow wealth. Number two, and number three, I want
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Speaker 1: to give you back your money that the government is
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Speaker 1: clearly overspending. You add all this together, and what we're
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Speaker 1: witnessing is a true change in the fiscal responsibility in
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Speaker 1: our nation. We also know the president is going to
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Speaker 1: spend less money, and that is something we haven't seen
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Speaker 1: in decades. And let me also be there is far
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Speaker 1: too much spending going on in this country right now,
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Speaker 1: and there's far too much by the Republicans that are
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Speaker 1: doing pork barrel spending. Everybody needs to understand this isn't
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Speaker 1: just a Democrat problem. This is actually a Republican problem
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Speaker 1: as well. What the President's advocating for is a massive
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Speaker 1: step in the right direction for fiscal responsibility, and it's
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Speaker 1: something that many Americans should get on board with. We
17:30
Speaker 1: also know that states have to balance their budget, why
17:33
Speaker 1: shouldn't the federal government? And the idea that we don't
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Speaker 1: have enough money coming in is also absurd. We have
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Speaker 1: record tax dollars that are being received by our federal government.
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Speaker 1: Now that's our money that we are giving to the government,
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Speaker 1: and they are abusing those tax dollars like you can't
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Speaker 1: even imagine. So I hope that what we witness now
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Speaker 1: is a major shift, a major change. The one thing
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Speaker 1: that makes me excited is at least we have a
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Speaker 1: president that's talking about your money like it is your money.
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Speaker 1: For far too long, politicians Republicans as well, talk about
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Speaker 1: tax dollars like it is their money. It is not
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Speaker 1: their money, it is our money that they take from us.
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Speaker 1: Most Americans work three months a year to pay their
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Speaker 1: tax liability. Imagine if we lowered that to just a
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Speaker 1: month a month and a half. And imagine if the
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Speaker 1: government stopped wasting our money. Imagine if we ended up
18:36
Speaker 1: getting the money from things like tariffs. And then you
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Speaker 1: have other Americans that understand the power of money. Michael
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Speaker 1: Dell talking about giving twenty five million American children the
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Speaker 1: investment accounts, I want you to listen to what he
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Speaker 1: said about why this could be a transformative moment for
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Speaker 1: our country.
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Speaker 5: Susan and I are super excited to announce our six
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Speaker 5: point two five billion dollar gift to twenty five million
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Speaker 5: American children ten and under, and our gift will cover
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Speaker 5: most of the children that are ten and under that
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Speaker 5: are not part of the federal program, the zero to
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Speaker 5: two year olds, and who also live in zip codes
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Speaker 5: where the immedian income is one hundred and fifty thousand
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Speaker 5: dollars or less. And I have spoken with the number
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Speaker 5: of other wealthy Americans philanthropists, and we are confident that
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Speaker 5: others will join us because we all understand the incredible
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Speaker 5: impact that a gift like this can have on the
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Speaker 5: lives of young Americans.
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Speaker 1: The impact on young Americans is the best part of
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Speaker 1: that conversation. If you want to know what the long
19:49
Speaker 1: term effects of the Trump administration are going to be,
19:52
Speaker 1: it is going to be these types of conversations that
19:56
Speaker 1: change the mentality that the government is not your pairents,
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Speaker 1: that the government is the problem, not the solution, That
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Speaker 1: the government should get out of your way and allow
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Speaker 1: you to keep more of your hard earned dollars. This
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Speaker 1: is what I love to hear, and hopefully in one
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Speaker 1: generation we can change this mentality indefinitely. President Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: had a cabinet meeting and it's an important one because
20:26
Speaker 1: it shows just how transparent the president of the United
20:28
Speaker 1: States of America is. The timing is also very important
20:32
Speaker 1: after Democrats are saying they smell blood in the water
20:36
Speaker 1: politically right now as they defend the narco terrorists who
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Speaker 1: are sending drugs into the United States of America that
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Speaker 1: are killing Americans at a record rate of almost three
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Speaker 1: hundred a day. Mark Kelly and many other Democrats are
20:53
Speaker 1: now leading the attack on the Secretary of War Pete
20:56
Speaker 1: Headgseth over the drug boats. And the same people that
21:01
Speaker 1: are now saying the President doesn't have the right to
21:03
Speaker 1: strike these boats or the terrorists on the boats are
21:07
Speaker 1: the same people that literally did nothing after Biden drone
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Speaker 1: attacked children. No, they did not say that was a
21:15
Speaker 1: war crime. They did not call for the President to
21:18
Speaker 1: be locked up or the man in charge at the Pentagon. Instead,
21:23
Speaker 1: they look the other way. This time, the President has
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Speaker 1: made it clear we're going after these terrorists in these
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Speaker 1: terrorist organizations who were killing Americans. And the President also
21:35
Speaker 1: showed during the cabinet meeting that he has no problem
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Speaker 1: answering the question as the Secretary of War was sitting
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Speaker 1: literally right next to him. I want to play for
21:44
Speaker 1: you this back and forth with the media, and I
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Speaker 1: want you to actually hear what the President had to say,
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Speaker 1: not just a sound bite that the media is putting out,
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Speaker 1: but the President in his own words. And I want
21:56
Speaker 1: you to hear what he had to say about the
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Speaker 1: fog of war, or the second strike on the drug
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Speaker 1: boat survivors as the media has described it, and why
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Speaker 1: he is going after them. I'll say it again, this
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Speaker 1: is an unedited version and it includes the Secretary of
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Speaker 1: Defense sitting right next to the President. So listen to
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Speaker 1: the President explain exactly why he's doing this and why
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Speaker 1: I believe so many Americans are standing behind him.
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Speaker 4: Good President, thank you so much for taking questions with
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Speaker 4: your assembled cabinet. I wanted to clarify something that you
22:30
Speaker 4: had said on Sunday regarding the boat strikes near Venezuela,
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Speaker 4: and you had said that you didn't know if the
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Speaker 4: second strike on that one boat had happened, but you
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Speaker 4: wouldn't have wanted it. Now that your administration has acknowledged
22:41
Speaker 4: that it happened, do you support that second strike? And
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Speaker 4: mister Secretary, I want to clarify something you had said
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Speaker 4: in an interview back in September. I believe on Fox
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Speaker 4: News you said that you had watched that strike live
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Speaker 4: on television in real time. Did you know that there
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Speaker 4: were survivors after the initial strike?
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Speaker 3: Well, look, all I know is this every boat that
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Speaker 3: you see get blown up. We saved twenty five thousand,
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Speaker 3: on average lives, twenty five thousand lives. They've been sending
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Speaker 3: enough of this horrible fentanyl and other things like cocaine
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Speaker 3: and other things.
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Speaker 6: But Fedomovel right now is the leader of the pack
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Speaker 6: to kill our entire nation.
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Speaker 3: Because a little speck on the head of a pin
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Speaker 3: could kill somebody is very dangerous stuff. I know so
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Speaker 3: many people with their sons where drug addicts. They had
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Speaker 3: one little sample and they died.
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Speaker 2: They died.
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Speaker 3: They couldn't believe it. As far as the attack is concerned,
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Speaker 3: I didn't, you know. I still haven't gotten a lot
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Speaker 3: of information because every lion pete.
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Speaker 6: But to me, it was an attack.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't one strike, two strikes, three strikes. Somebody asked
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Speaker 3: me a question about the second strike.
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Speaker 6: I didn't know about the second strike. I didn't know
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Speaker 6: anything about people. I wasn't involved.
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Speaker 3: I knew they took out a boat, but I would
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Speaker 3: say this, they had a strike. I hear the gentlemen
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Speaker 3: that in charge of that is extraordinaries, extraordinary personal that
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Speaker 3: Pete speak about them. But Pete was satisfied. Pete didn't
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Speaker 3: know about a second attack having to do with two people,
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Speaker 3: and I guess Pete would have to speak to it.
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Speaker 3: I can say this, I want those boats taken out
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Speaker 3: and if we have to, will attack on land also
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Speaker 3: just like we attack on sea, and they're very little
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Speaker 3: coming in by sea. I think we've knocked out over
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Speaker 3: ninety percent of it. There's very little good. I understand
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Speaker 3: that there's very little. We're saving hundreds of thousands of
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Speaker 3: lives with those pinpoint attacks. It's an amazing thing when
24:36
Speaker 3: you see a boat going along and you know a
24:38
Speaker 3: lot of the press would like to say they're not.
24:41
Speaker 3: You see the boat, they're not maybe drugs. You see
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Speaker 3: these boats first of all, who has five engines on
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Speaker 3: the back of about going in weird directions and loaded
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Speaker 3: up with lots of white contactors. They're volved their bags things.
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Speaker 3: Now they've done an amazing job, and Peter's done it amazing. Joe,
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Speaker 3: you could probably veer answer the question.
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Speaker 7: Another spot on Sir I think you got to start
25:05
Speaker 7: with the baseline which Marco laid out.
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Speaker 6: Was laid out.
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Speaker 7: We've got twenty million people invading our country over four years.
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Speaker 6: We don't know where they're coming from.
25:13
Speaker 7: That includes Trenda arragua and cartels and violent criminals. They
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Speaker 7: bring drugs, and you mentioned it, mister president, poisoning and
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Speaker 7: intentional poisoning of the American people, killing hundreds of thousands
25:23
Speaker 7: of Americans.
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Speaker 6: So the President had the courage to designate.
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Speaker 7: These cartels as designated terrorist organizations.
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Speaker 6: A number of us here served.
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Speaker 7: In the military and spent twenty years fighting terrorists like
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Speaker 7: al Qaeda and ISIS on the other side of the world.
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Speaker 6: How do you treat al Qaeda and Isis.
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Speaker 7: Do you arrest them and treat them, pat them on
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Speaker 7: the head and say don't do that again. Or do
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Speaker 7: you end the problem directly by taking a lethal kinetic approach.
25:49
Speaker 7: And that's the way President Trump has authorized the War
25:52
Speaker 7: Department to look at these cartels.
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Speaker 6: And I wish everybody could be in the room watching.
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Speaker 7: Our professionals, our professionals like Mitch Bradley, Admiral Mitch Bradley
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Speaker 7: and others at Jaysack and so Calm and other commanders,
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Speaker 7: the deliberative process, the detail, the rigorous, the intel, the legal,
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Speaker 7: the evidence based way that we're able to with sources
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Speaker 7: and methods that we.
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Speaker 6: Can't reveal here. Make sure that every one of those.
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Speaker 7: Drug boats is tied to a designated terrorist organization.
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Speaker 6: We know who's on it, what they're doing, what they're carrying.
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Speaker 7: All these white bails are not Christmas gifts from Santa.
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Speaker 7: This is drugs running on for motor fastboats or submarines
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Speaker 7: that we've also struck. No one's fishing on a submarine,
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Speaker 7: and I have empowered them to make that call. Now
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Speaker 7: the first couple of strikes, as you would, as any
26:38
Speaker 7: leader would want, you want to own that responsibility. So
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Speaker 7: I said, I'm going to be the one to make
26:42
Speaker 7: the call after getting all the information and make sure
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Speaker 7: it's the right strike.
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Speaker 6: That was September second.
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Speaker 7: There's a lot of intelligence that goes into that building
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Speaker 7: that case and understanding that, a lot of people providing information.
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Speaker 7: I watched that first strike life, as you can imagine,
26:56
Speaker 7: at the Department of War, we've got a lot.
26:57
Speaker 6: Of things to do.
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Speaker 7: So I didn't stick around for the hour and two
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Speaker 7: hours whatever where all the sensitive side exploitation digitally occurs,
27:05
Speaker 7: So I moved on to my next meeting. A couple
27:07
Speaker 7: of hours later, I learned that that commander had made
27:09
Speaker 7: the which he had the complete.
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Speaker 6: Authority to do.
27:12
Speaker 7: And by the way, Edwinal Bradley made the correct decision
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Speaker 7: to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat.
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Speaker 6: He sunk the boat, sunk the boat and eliminated the threat,
27:23
Speaker 6: and he was the right call.
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Speaker 7: We have his back and the American people are safer
27:28
Speaker 7: because narco terrorists. No, you can't bring drugs through the
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Speaker 7: water and eventually on land if necessary, I have to
27:35
Speaker 7: do to the American people.
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Speaker 6: We will eliminate that threat, and we're proud to do it.
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Speaker 4: So you didn't see any survivors, to be clear, after
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Speaker 4: that first.
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Speaker 7: Ring, personally, I did not personally see survivors, but I
27:46
Speaker 7: stand because the thing was on fire. I was exploded
27:50
Speaker 7: in fire smoke. You can't see anything you got digital.
27:52
Speaker 7: This is called the fog of war.
27:54
Speaker 6: This is what you and the press don't understand. You
27:57
Speaker 6: sit in your conditioned offices or up on cap Hill
28:00
Speaker 6: and you nit pick and.
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Speaker 8: You plant fake stories in the Washington Post about kill
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Speaker 8: everybody phrases on anonymous sources, not based in anything, not
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Speaker 8: based in any truth at all, and then you want
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Speaker 8: to throw up really irresponsible terms about American heroes, about the.
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Speaker 6: Judgment that they made.
28:17
Speaker 7: I wrote a whole book on this topic because of
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Speaker 7: what politicians and the press does to warfighters. President Trump
28:23
Speaker 7: has empowered commanders, commanders to do what is necessary, which
28:27
Speaker 7: is dark and difficult things in the dead of night
28:29
Speaker 7: on behalf of the American people. We support them and
28:32
Speaker 7: will stop the poisoning of the American people.
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Speaker 1: So as you can hear there the President of United
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Speaker 1: States of America making it very clear why we are
28:39
Speaker 1: going after these terrorists and what success looks like. There's
28:44
Speaker 1: also one other warning. Democrats are now playing with the
28:49
Speaker 1: idea that they may come back when they gain power
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Speaker 1: and start arresting our men and women in uniform and
28:57
Speaker 1: even the man in charge of the Department of War,
29:00
Speaker 1: Pete Headseth, for what they are now describing as war crimes.
29:06
Speaker 1: This is psychological warfare. This is a shocking precedent by
29:11
Speaker 1: a party that we now know is unhinged. Now we
29:14
Speaker 1: know what they try to do to President Trump. We
29:16
Speaker 1: know they tried to lock him up they try to
29:18
Speaker 1: overthrow the will of the people, They try to impeach
29:22
Speaker 1: him on documents a new or a lie, the Stile
29:25
Speaker 1: dossier that were user generated and paid for by Hillary
29:28
Speaker 1: Clinton's campaign and the Democrat National Committee. We know they're
29:32
Speaker 1: willing to use the government to intimidate, to try to
29:35
Speaker 1: lock you and family members up if they don't like you.
29:38
Speaker 1: But what they're now saying is they're willing to go
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Speaker 1: a step further. Before it was Donald Trump and his
29:42
Speaker 1: closest allies. Now they're saying it could be any man
29:46
Speaker 1: or woman in uniform that is carrying out a strike
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Speaker 1: against these narco terrorists. And what the Democratic Party is
29:55
Speaker 1: now clearly trying to do is to put major doubt
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Speaker 1: in the minds of our men and women that fight
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Speaker 1: these terrorists. This is psychological warfare, and I am going
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Speaker 1: to make a prediction there's a very good chance you're
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Speaker 1: going to hear even more about this in the days
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Speaker 1: and weeks ahead. They are going to want the men
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Speaker 1: and women in uniform to fear them. They want you
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Speaker 1: to believe that they will come after you, that they
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Speaker 1: will lock you up, that they will bankrupt you, that
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Speaker 1: they will arrest you, and that your life after serving
30:28
Speaker 1: your country will be spent in a prison cell. This
30:33
Speaker 1: is the most shocking part of this entire story. Is
30:37
Speaker 1: there an actual controversy here? No. I will remind you
30:41
Speaker 1: there were drone strikes that killed children under the Biden administration.
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Speaker 1: Democrats didn't bat an eye this time. Republicans are killing
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Speaker 1: narco terrists who are running drugs that are killing Americans.
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Speaker 1: And what are the Democrats doing. They're threatening wark crimes
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Speaker 1: against men and women for serving the president of the
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Speaker 1: United States of America with lawful orders. So that's where
31:08
Speaker 1: we are today. This is the Democratic Party, and we
31:13
Speaker 1: must make sure that our men and women in a
31:14
Speaker 1: uniform are allowed to do their jobs and not worried
31:17
Speaker 1: about going to jail because of a psychotic Democratic Party.
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